Bioethics
A Nursing Perspective
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Written by Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice. With a strong emphasis on the principles and standards of human rights and social justice, the 7th edition examines the spectrum of bioethical issues in health care with a focus on patients’ rights, cross-cultural ethics, vulnerability ethics, mental health ethics, professional conduct, patient safety and end-of-life ethics.
Table of Contents
- 1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical
2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions
3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing
4.Cross cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing
5.Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts
6.Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
7.Patients’ rights to and in health care
8.Ethical issues in mental health care
9.Ethical issues in end-of-life care
10.The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia
11.Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking ‘appropriate action’
12.Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse
13.Nursing ethics futures – challenges in the 21st century
Product details
- No. of pages: 483
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: April 11, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
About the Author
Megan-Jane Johnstone
Affiliations and Expertise
Independent Scholar; Formerly Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.